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artful 音标拼音: ['ɑrtfəl] a. 巧妙的,狡猾的 巧妙的,狡猾的 artful adj 1: not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; " an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who... exemplified... the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; " a disingenuous excuse" [ synonym: { disingenuous}, { artful}] [ ant: { artless}, { ingenuous}] 2: marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; " the artful dodger"; " an artful choice of metaphors" [ ant: { artless}] Artful \ Art" ful\, a. [ From { Art}.] 1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. [ Archaic] " Artful strains." " Artful terms." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Artificial; imitative. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. [ 1913 Webster] He [ was] too artful a writer to set down events in exact historical order. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [ The usual sense.] [ 1913 Webster] Artful in speech, in action, and in mind. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] The artful revenge of various animals. -- Darwin. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Cunning; skillful; adroit; dexterous; crafty; tricky; deceitful; designing. See { Cunning}. [ 1913 Webster] 96 Moby Thesaurus words for " artful": Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adroit, ambidextrous, arch, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, chiseling, clever, collusive, covinous, crafty, crooked, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep- laid, designing, devious, dexterous, diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double- dealing, double- faced, double- minded, double- tongued, doublehearted, duplicitous, facile, faithless, false, false- principled, falsehearted, feline, finagling, forsworn, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, indirect, ingenious, insidious, insincere, inventive, knowing, oily, pawky, perfidious, perjured, politic, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, specious, stealthy, strategic, suave, subtile, subtle, superficial, supple, surreptitious, tactical, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two- faced, uncandid, underhand, underhanded, unfrank, unsincere, untruthful, vulpine, wary, wily
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